Amassive sinkhole opened up in a road in Australia in the middle of the night, swallowing most of a car.
A car and a pickup truck inside a sinkhole in California on January 10, 2023. They form as moving groundwater beneath the surface carves away a cavity.Sinkholes may also be more common in areas where human activity causes a large amount of groundwater removal from the soil, such as building sites, or in regions where there are many tunnels or mines.
"When these regions are suddenly inundated with massive amounts of water from torrential rainfall or flooding, for example from storms or from broken water mains, the soil layer above the cavities will become saturated, dissolution of the already fractured bedrock may accelerate, and the significant additional weight above the weakened bedrock or cavities will lead to the collapse and opening of the sinkhole," Brenner said.
In the U.S., Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Pennsylvania are more prone to sinkholes due to the makeup of their rock, according to theThe holes can end up swallowing cars, people and even whole buildings, causing great expense and
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